Gizmodo today has such a great post about a new South Korean campaign for robot rights!! It gave me the jeebs cuz Deployment Strategy touches on this exact thing in the future where AI is not only possible but wide spread on the torrents and P2P networks!! I was compelled to post the article link here as well as this clip from the film after the jump!

The first draft of Deployment Strategy was completed in March 2005. There were approximately 3 complete revisions and a brazilian tweaks made all over the place before any pre-production began. It continued to change all throughout pre-production and changed some more during the shoot as it came out of actorsâ€™ mouths. (isnâ€™t that always the case?)

How I describe the movie depends on how much time you have.

If we met in the elevator Iâ€™d say, "Deployment Strategy is like Aliens + Bladerunner with some Evil Dead 2 in it. There are guns and cyborgs in it."

First off, lets talk about this image! As you may know, our story revolves around the mission of D9 to detain and question Daniel Richards, a rogue programmer with complete disregard for Federal regulatory standards governing AI software development. There is a key point in the film...

...where the Richards' dossier is revealed and the true nature of the government's interest is finally disclosed. this image is one of a 5 image sequence that shows screens for Richards' dossier. I had to crop the image because it contains a key plot point and I don't want to ruin the story for you! I'll try and post more of them later on. Right now, I'm trying to break down how I want these screens to animate in the film!

The story revolves around Lee's first mission with D9 as they go to bust a programmer who's conducting illegal software development. The idea came to me when I was coding for a client (I run a consulting business) and pondered on the wisdom of beta testing an application before releasing it into production.

The financial applications I help develop need to be thoroughly tested before being released into production on a website for the world wide web to use..if there are bugs, people complain, the company loses customers and trillions of dollars, and I get blamed...so imagine a world where artificial intelligence is possible..a gazillion lines of code can program a soul...think of how important beta testing would be!!

So I just thought I'd add that the green text in the flash banner above actually starts the film. A half an hour isn't a lot of time to introduce a whole new world, so this paragraph paints the basic world and context in which the story takes place...

I've always liked film openings like these from Blade Runner to the Terminator to the Kingdom of Heaven! Of course that's not the only reason why we have an opening paragraph in our film :D